Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: 20th Century:

Representations: Literary Texts:
J.M. COETZEE

G e n e r a l   I n f o r m a t i o n

»John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.« -- More information: Wikipedia



Disgrace (Novel)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.« -- More information: Wikipedia


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | II. Geographical Index: African History: South African History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: David Lurie; Fictional Victims: Melanie Isaacs, Lucy Lurie; Types: General: Sexual Assault; Rape: Gang Rape, Interracial Rape

[Info] Barnard, Lianne. »The Politics of Rape: Traces of Radical Feminism in Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.« Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 50 (2013): 19-29.

[Info] Beiranvand, A., et al. »Black Peril VS White Peril: A Post Colonial Criticism on J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« Studies in Literature and Language 6 (2013): 56-60.

[Info] Boehmer, Elleke. »Not Saying Sorry, Not Speaking Pain: Gender Implications in DisgraceInterventions 4 (2004): 342-351.

[Info] Burger, Pamela. The Sadistic Reader: Gender and the Pleasures of Violence in the Novel. Ph.D. Thesis, City University of New York, 2015.

[Info] Cass, Jeffrey. »Rape as Debt: The Incineration of Romanticism in J. M. Coetzee's DisgraceCEA Critic 75 (2013): 36-43.

[Info] Chou, Kimberly. “This place being South Africa”: Reading race, sex and power in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. B.A. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2009.

[Info] Claassens, L. Juliana. »A True Disgrace? The Representation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations and in J.M. Coetzee's Novel DisgraceFragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversations on Scriptures, Family, and Violence. Edited by L. Juliana Claassens et al. Atlanta 2013: 73-90.

[Info] Cornwell, Gareth. »Realism, Rape, and J.M. Coetzee’s DisgraceCritique 43 (2002): 307-322.

[Info] Crews, Erin M. After Apartheid: Violence, Spatial Boundaries, and the Reconciliation Process in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels. Master's Thesis, Emory University, 2009.

[Info] Diakhaté, Babacar. »Racial Politics and Sexual Violence in Post-Apartheid Contemporary South Africa in John Maxwell Coetzee's Disgrace (2000).« Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences 1 (2019): 1-5.

[Info] Diehl, Lindsay A. In the Name of Love: David Lurie's Romanticized Violence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012.

[Info] Eagleton, Mary. »Ethical reading: The problem of Alice Walker’s ‘Advancing Luna – and Ida B. Wells’ and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Feminist Theory 2 (2001): 189-203.

[Info] Every, Kate. »“Growing scar tissue around the memory of that day”: Sites of Gendered Violence and Suffering in Contemporary South African Literature.« Journal of International Women's Studies 17 (2016): 30-42.

[Info] Gieni, Justine. Gender Dis-Ease: Representations of Masculine Hysteria in Narratives of Sexual Trauma. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2012.

[Info] Graham, Lucy V. »Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s DisgraceJournal of Southern African Studies 29 (2003): 433-444.

[Info] Graham, Lucy V. »Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s DisgraceBody, Sexuality, and Gender: Versions and Subversions in African Literatures. Vol. 1. Edited by Flora Veit-Wild et al. Amsterdam 2005: 255-267.

[Info] Graham, LucyGraham, Lucy V. State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford University, 2010.

[Info] Graham, Lucy V. State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature. Oxford 2012.

[Info] Harrington, Ashley B. The Myth of the Criminal and Animal Subjecthood in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace. M.A. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2013.

[Info] Jansen, Kathrine M.W. Rape and Torture: Depictions of Violence in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarian and Disgrace. M.A. Thesis, University of Oslo, 2013.

[Info] LeBlanc, Mary. »Hushed Resolve, Reticence, and Rape in J. M. Coetzee's DisgracePhilosophy and Literature 41 (2017): 158-168.

[Info] Lloyd, Dylan R. Enabling Violence: The Ethics of Writing and Reading Rape in South Africa. M.A. Thesis, Rhodes University, 2020.

[Info] Lunardi, Margherita. Two post-colonial narratives of racial and sexual oppression. Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017.

[Info] Martens-Olzman, Devin. »The Ethics of Representation: Rape, Genocide, Torture.« Emergence 5 (2014).

[Info] Moffat, Nicola. »Rape and the (Animal) Other: Making Monsters in J. M. Coetzee’s DisgraceSigns 43 (2018): 401-423.

[Info] Moser, Linda M. Rape and Silence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. Student Thesis, Halmstad Högskolan, 2012.

[Info] Muhiddin, Salman, et al. »Rape and Shame in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« Litera~Kultura 2 (2014).

[Info] Reck, Casey M. Laying Bare the Sins of the Father: Exploring White Fathers in Post-Apartheid Literature. Senior Thesis, Claremont McKenna College, 2010.

[Info] Segall, Kimberly W. »Pursuing Ghosts: The Traumatic Sublime in J.M. Coetzee’s DisgraceResearch in African Literatures 36 (2005): 40-54.

[Info] Stokes, Katherine M. Sexual Violence and the Authority to Speak: The Representation of Rape in Three Contemporary Novels. M.A. Thesis, McGill University, 2008.

[Info] Þorgeirsdóttir, Hjördís E. "A history of wrong": Post-colonial and feminist concerns in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. B.A. verkefni, Háskóli Íslands, 2012.

[Info] van Wyk Smith, M. »Rape and the Foundation of Nations in J. M. Coetzee's DisgraceEnglish in Africa 41 (2014): 13-34.


B i b l i o g r a p h y

1. Rape of Lucy Lurie

I. Author Index

[Info] Kuo, Chia-Chen. »(不)受弱的女人: 柯慈《屈辱》中的性暴力、法律與南非新自由主義.« 中外文學 54 (2023): 233-268.

II. Speaker Index

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2. Sexual Abuse of Melanie Isaacs

I. Author Index

[Info] Kuo, Chia-Chen. »(不)受弱的女人: 柯慈《屈辱》中的性暴力、法律與南非新自由主義.« 中外文學 54 (2023): 233-268.

II. Speaker Index

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Dusklands (Novel)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Dusklands (1974) is the debut novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel consists of two separate stories, "The Vietnam Project" and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee."« -- More information: Wikipedia


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | II. Geographical Index: African History: South African History | III. Topical Index: General: Rape

I. Author Index

[Info] Jolly, Rosemary. »The Gun as Copula: Colonization, Rape, and the Question of Pornographic Violence in J.M. Coetzee’s DusklandsWorld Literature Written in English 32 (1992): 44-55.

[Info] Jolly, Rosemary J. Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African Writing: André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee. Athens 1996.

II. Speaker Index

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In the Heart of the Country (Novel)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»In the Heart of the Country (1977) is an early novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The book is one of Coetzee's more experimental novels and is narrated through 266 numbered paragraphs rather than chapters.« -- More information: Wikipedia


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | II. Geographical Index: African History: South African History | III. Topical Index: General: Rape

I. Author Index

[Info] Edelbacher, Lisa. Body and Text in Selected Works of J.M. Coetzee. Diplomarbeit, Universität Wien, 2013.

[Info] Scudder, Erin. Reading Rape in Livy's History of Rome, Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, and J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country. Master Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2010.

II. Speaker Index

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